Several startups are racing to be the first to fill US consumers’ plates with laboratory developed hamburgers and sausages that taste just as good as the kind from cattle and pigs.
General Motors is launching a new car-sharing service with vehicles for rent by the hour or day in Ann Arbor, with more cities to follow. The mobile application-based service, called Maven, will first focus on the University of Michigan, where it is initially available to a pilot group of faculty and students. It will be expanded and made available to more than 100,000 people in Ann Arbor in the coming weeks.
We’ve all heard the advice: take 10,000 steps daily. That seemingly simple goal sold millions of fitness trackers, most of which put your step count front and center. It’s also one reason many of these gadgets end up gathering dust. What’s so bad about the old 10,000 step rule? Anything that gets sedentary people moving is a good thing, doctors say. The 10,000 figure originated with a 1960s Japanese step-counter marketing campaign, a time and place that may not have much relevance to 2016 bodies. Step counters ignore the imperative to raise your heart rate, which the American Heart Association says is key to stemming our No. 1 killer, heart disease.
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